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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:24:20 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Midnight Commander
Message-ID:  <l0302090daf6d461dcafa@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970406120736.654F-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
References:  <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au>

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At 12:08 pm +0100 6/4/97, Doug Rabson wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote:
>
>> I've verified this on two machines recently, but it seems that
>> at least since the lite2 merge, "mc" seems broken. It mostly
>> works, but is prone to hanging, and will *always* hang when
>> type ^O to get to the background/pty shell. I tried both the
>> pre-compiled port, then building it fresh from sources (not that
>> I expected this to make a difference, but this was the road of
>> Least Effort<tm> :-)).
>>
>> Before I waste a couple of hours looking into this, does anyone
>> have any ideas?  According to ps, it seems to be hung in "sbwait".
>
>Hmm.  I have noticed that man(1) sometimes hangs in sbwait on one of my
>systems.  It always comes back after 20 seconds or so.  Maybe this is
>related?

I've seen something similar with ftp(1) on -current. I'll check it again
when it's finished building...


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